Cannonball Read 18

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Kansas City, MO is actually a great setting for a swoony mm fake dating romance

Isn’t He Romantic by Adib Khorram

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For a couple of years, Helena Greer has been telling anyone who will listen that we should read Adib Khorram. I knew she was right. It just took a bit for one of his arcs to get into my hands. Isn’t He Romantic is the third in his Love on the Vine series, and while I’m looking forward to reading the first two books when I have a chance, it’s enough of a stand alone that I didn’t feel like I was missing information. I really enjoyed […]

A unique, YA additional to the sparse male friendship genre

Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

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A while back I was trawling for books about male friendships, which is surprisingly (or not) a pretty tall ask. There’s like, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. If you narrow it further, and look for ownvoices it’s even more sparse. That being said, books about female friendships? DIME A DOZEN, in every flavor you’d like (toxic, childhood, best, broken, lifelong, etc etc). One note that was promising–when looking for stories about male friendships, I did run into a wealth of novels about friendships-or-not-friendships-that-turned-into-love. It’s amazing that the […]

We all deserve better.

Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram

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I read Darius the Great Is Not Okay last year, prepared to LOVE it, and really just liked it. That’s not an indictment of the book–it was a good book! I was curious to see where Adib Khorram would take the story next, and as it turned out, he really dug deep into the characters. Darius Kellner has returned from his spring trip to Iran. He’s still best friends with Sohrab and has joined the soccer team at school. He’s made friends. He’s gotten a […]



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